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Google Webservice Problem

Hi, I am new to the forums here and was hoping someone could help me out. I have been working on this project and have been stuck for quite a while now(almost a week). I am learning about how to connect java to the web and would like to do the example of connecting to a google webservice. (specifically the geocoding webservice) I have created a valid URL I know because it works in the browser, but I just get a thrown exception (http 400---bad request) when I try to call upon the URL from my java code.